The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Apex High School Robotics Teams will lead demonstrations at the Time Warner Cable – News 14 Carolina booth next to J.S. Dorton Arena to engage students and their families in the importance of STEM.

The Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC) have named Liz Baird Environmental Educator of the Year. EENC's mission is to promote excellence in professional development and facilitate networking opportunities, inspiring educators to create an environmentally literate citizenry.

A Museum and North Carolina State University researcher is part of a team that has discovered fossilized feathers from a giant penguin that lived near the Equator more than 36 million years ago. These feathery fossils reveal color patterns in an ancient extinct penguin species, and offer clues to how modern penguin feathers evolved.

An article in today's Wall Street Journal about the US Geological Survey's annual frog and toad census features interviews with Museum herpetologist Dr. Alvin Braswell and biologists from NCSU and the NC Wildlife Resources Commission